Second release of 2025: loads of adds, fixes and documentation improvements. A huge THANK YOU to all contributors. Slightly changed format for the change list based on commit messages which should speed up releases:
New operations & arguments:
- operations/freebsd: add FreeBSD operations & facts (@DtxdF)
- operations/files.move: new operation (@Pirols)
- operations/server.user: enable adding user to secondary groups (Pirols)
- operations/postgres: enhance role management by adding
ALTER ROLEsupport (@wowi42) - operations/postgres: enable modifying existing postgres databases (@wowi42)
- operations/docker.container: refactor to support container recreation (@minor-fixes)
Operation/fact fixes:
- operations/postgres: fix quoting of locale parameters (@xvello)
- operations/server: remove leftover deprecated parameter (@wowi42)
- operations/pacmen: update PACMAN_REGEX to support additional characters (@wowi42)
- operations/server.sysctl: handle 0 integer values correctly (@lemmi)
- operations/apt: dist-upgrade also supports --autoremove (@bauen1)
- operations/apt: fix parameter name in docs (@bauen1)
- operations/server: fix: lastlog is always null (@ingstem)
- operations/docker: Fixed a typo with the volumes parameter to docker.prune operation (@mpilone)
- facts/xbps.XbpsPackages: allow . in package names (@lemmi)
Connectors, CLI:
- connectors: improve detection of sudo password needed
- connectors/ssh: add support for
ServerAliveInterval(@chipot) - cli: enable -h as shorthand for --help (@NichtJens)
Docs:
- docs: Add a section explaining connector flow (@goetzk)
- docs: Add inventory processing note and reference it (@goetzk)
- docs: Add example of logging to using operations docs (@goetzk)
- docs: fix wrong example operation using forbidden argument 'name' (@robertmx)
- docs: Add a note to the docs about using
_innerwhen calling operations from other operations (@CSDUMMI) - docs: Document host, state, inventory in files.template (@mpilone)
- docs: Minor adjustments to wording help docs and help (@goetzk)
- docs: expand connectors documentation (@goetzk)
- docs: correct import path for any_changed, all_changed (@lemmi)
- docs: Add note re: global arguments to operations (@simonhammes)
Internal/meta:
- refactor: update opkg documentation and add requires_command to ZFS and Git tests (@wowi42)
- Update testing and development dependencies in setup.py (@wowi42)
- tests: Load test specs with PyYAML instead of json (@taliaferro)
- typing: Require explicit override decorator (@bauen1)
- api: don't execute callbacks within a greenlet if we're already in one
- ci: Github Actions support for python 3.12 (@wowi42)
- ci: Prevent docs job from running on forks (@simonhammes)